“Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething.”

“This poor little one-horse town.”

“Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.”

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.”

“The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance stupidity and perjury.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”